Improvement in spring bed-bottoms



Patented March 16, 1875'.

. ATTORNEYS.

E. P. BENNETT.

Spring Bed-B bttom.

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TH E GRAPHIC C0. PH 0TO -LlTH.39 & 41 PARK PLACE, Nfil ,No.l60,809

wnuissis NITED STATES PATENT OFF-10E EDWARD P. BENNETT, OF ELKLAND, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SPRING BED-BOTTOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,809, dated March 16, 1875 application filed December 28, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD P. BENNETT, of Elkland, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spring Bed-Bottom, of which the following is a specification:

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in spring bed-bottoms; and consists in springs attached to the head and foot boards, having eyes which hold rods, and in a series of solid spring-slats. slotted at the ends to receive the rods, the said rods beingdivided or split, and having central springs, as hereinafter more fully described.

Figure 1 is a top view of a bed-bottom constructed according to my invention; and Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken on the line a: w of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

A represents thebedstead. B are the springs, which are fastened to the head and foot boards, the lower ends of which curve inward and terminate in eyes 0. l) are two rods through these eyes, supported by the springs. E are the slats, the construction of which is more Each spring is made clearly seen in Fig. 2.

placed on the rods, with narrow spaces 1 between them, and may be used either side up.

The mattress or bed is placed on these slats..

The springs D and the spring-slats E render the bottom exceedingly elastic, easy, and noiseless.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a bed-bottom, the slats E, each notched at the ends, and having a spiral spring, F, in terposed between the divided parts composing its body, in combination with the cross-rods D and the springs B, having eyes G, and curved to adapt them for attachment to a bedstead, as shown a'nd described.

EDWARD P. BENNETT. Witnesses:

T. B. MOSHER, ALEX. F. RoBERTs. 

